Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-10
THE GOVERNORS BLUnDea.


ebAhCoSoWa SuRlbhl u httCJi
The contest between Gov. Church and
the suspended trustees OF the Yankton
asylum will DO watched with consider
able interest by the people of the whole
territory. 1t is reported that the gov
vernon has appointed others to take
their places, but the old members whom
the governor he's assumed to gust by his
official edict deny his authority and have
employed counsel to defend them i n
probably be brought into the courts and
premises be Judicially defined. The
governor sometime ego decided that he
bad no power to depose the trustees but
he seems TO have reversed bis own de-
olslon. 1t is too late IN the season now
to make the improvements which the
governor has all summer o~bstructed and
the winter months might as we'll be &C.
gu pied IN ascertalniDg whether the gov
ernor is a law unto himself or is subject
to the laws of the territory.
Aberdeen Republican (democrauc):
The latest reports are that Col, Gale, an
agent of Gov. Church, has been to Yank-
ton with blank commissions to select y
NOW poato. Aue ioiioWluR nhuce nave
been flied in: Il, Dol, Gale, select M.
I. Woolley, Otto p. Miller. ). A: Kent,
of Yenkton; w. @. Qalgley, of Parker,
and L. b. Gale, of Canton" The old
board say they will not turn over the
records, therefore it Is probable there
will be q collision of the authorities,
and it will end IN the courts taking hold
Of the matter. The sentiment OF the
1 nanNla - u,fh Tho old h,c~1 D 20 w
ported in Yankton and In our city that
that Gov. Church will or has removed
Public Examiner Harris, for the reason
the Yankton business and cannot show
him the way out. III Governor Church
and Examiner Harris are not more suc-
territory than they are in finding the
prison pen Barrett, the poor creatures
will get badly left.
Pierre Free Press: The Yankton
hospital trouble seems to have but Just
begun. Last week O new deal Was taken
The governor suspended three members
OF the beard, and accepted the resiaua
ton of the other two. A new investiga.
ton was also inaugurated. The sus.
pended members deny the authority OF
taO EONCshOA W. 5ACPOhu ehV"t eha dcAy
him. They will go on attending to their
duties the same as before. A big Law
suit will undoubtedly grow out of it.
1t looks to the Free Press as though the
governor had got his foot into it badly
Mitchell Republican: The new board
which Gov. Church has appointed for
the YRnkton insane asylum is on the
whole made up OF good men. The three
| Yanhknn mannharg afa hnnInRaa man nj
high standing in that community. and
Hr. Q1Ieley. OF Parker, is we'll spoken
of by those who know him. Col. Gale
viii be valuable as an ornamental ad-
%junct and unless he tries to run the whole
business, will pot do much harm. Now
If Governor Church will withdraw the
wholesale charges of corruption against
the present board, which cannot possibly
be sustained. thus allowing thnee
gentlemen to resign with no imputatior
on their honesty even il their methods
have been careless, what threatens to be
q tedious case OF litigation, can be avert.
ed. 1t remains to be seen whether his
excellenoy, who was misled from the
start II this matter by ~ogefzsatous par
tisans, will develop the necessary state
manshIp to take this course.
Aberdeen News: The attitude oil
Governor Chulch toward the trustees Of
the Ylakton hospital has brought dIa-
credit upon his administration and upon
the territory, The governor, as usual
was o 'littie hHsty"-a fault which III
freely acknowledges, and yet does not
seek to ovsrcome-when he reappointed
three members of the old board with ru.
moFs OF crooked work hanging yer the
paes management OF the hospital. He
could very easily have appointed other
men-of his own heart-or investigated
the matter more fully before making any
new appointments. 1t appears howevel
that he had an idea that the appointeei
were Ibis men" and the board t'his
toard" and the visit of Auditor Ward tt
Ysnkton IN the interests OF the democra.
tic party and his indiscretiol
while there, demonstrates that the
governor had made q mistake. Thei
followed the Investigation, Impli
, eating nobody but COLBY. who had
severed his connection with the board
although showing that the board ha'
undue and unwarranted confidence il
I him, the same as Governor Church,
time has shown-has at times had il
some OF his subordinates. Ostensibl
for this reason the governor withhold
his approval of the plans for the addltio
to the hospital, and the 100000 appro
priated by the territory for this addition
lies idle-so fer as the territory is con
cerned-although drawing interest fo
6 the administration, and bearing inte.et
e for the territory, and the insane have t
g suffer. The old members of the board
, although frequently so importunei, re
fused to resign with any charge
J hanging Q them, consequent
r their Suspension. Whether o
mot this suspension is anti
orized by Law remains to be seen. Th
courts will be called upon to determin.
. The old board seems to be just as stub
. born as the governor ls. They do no
: propose that he can attach any stigm
4 to them and then they quietly lie dow
and Say it is all right. They have the
o honor to defend just as well 81 he ha
Now that q new board has been desil
mated, the plans will be approved an
then will come the fight to see VII
d shall handle the money. OF course I'll
governor has the purse strings in b
possession, but whether he has the la
which can keep the money therein r
ia mains to be seen. The whole affair is
disgrace and all because Govern
q. Church made q mistake in appointir
N men whom he thought he could hand
! -dictate their financial and polite
policy-he ig hot under the collar
condition in which he gets quite FIR
se quentiy.
Ynnkton Market.
yankton. Oct .